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Exploring Kaplak
Kaplak’s first website is online! It is yet a very simple website. For now it basically consists of a mailing list and this blog, and a few pages with what may be quite insufficient information about...
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Chris Anderson Talks About a Radical Price
Please enjoy this recent video with Chris Anderson, introducing the ideas of his forthcoming book FREE: The past and future of a radical price, at Nokia World 2007 in Amsterdam : Thanks for the tip to...
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The LEGO niche community
I have been looking around for a way to start Kaplak’s looking into the workings of online niche communities. We have some great examples in our own local backyard, but I wanted something, which showed...
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Amazon’s eCommerce Offer
I found this email in my mailbox today and thought I’d share it, as Amazon‘s latest move is an interesting one to note in relation to the Kaplak project. Amazon.com has been around since the very...
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What is a niche?
At Kaplak we’ve adopted the use of the term ‘niche’ in order to describe an aspect of the industrial economy, even though it is quite insufficient to describe the changes and challenges we mean to...
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Cat-herders
Can’t help but post this, because it’s the funniest commercial I’ve seen in the last five years : Thanks to Jason Calacanis for the tip! It’s an example of what twittering can do to a message. It’s not...
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Incentives for the slim end of the P2P tail
This just in from Chris Anderson : Bootstrapping the Long Tail in Peer to Peer Bernardo Huberman and Fang Wu from HP labs have just released a paper describing a way to help P2P networks deal well with...
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What is Kaplak?
Over the next handful of articles I’m going to dive into what Kaplak is and how it works, as far as I can at the present time. This first article is a slightly modified re-run of the background article...
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The Kaplak Widget’s Online Journey
This early sketch illustrates how a product/widget from a niche producer is made visible in a niche context somewhere else on the web : A web user and niche producer (A) encounters a Kaplak widget on a...
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How Kaplak Stream Creates New Value for Web Publishers and Niche Contexts
Sometimes I prefer to visualize an idea using nothing else but notepad – or preferably just pen and paper, whatever I have in front of me. The ‘back of the napkin‘ philosophy fits well with me. In fact...
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The World of the Yeltsins
I have not had the slightest piece of time, opportunity or reason this last year to revive the Kaplak Blog – or the Kaplak Log, as I think I’ll soon rename it – until now. For one thing, Kaplak doesn’t...
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